Week 11 Blog and Muddy Point

1993-1994:
The National Science Foundation held planning workshops on digital libraries.

1994:
Digital library research gains its first Federal funding under the Digital Library Initiative DL1. It consisted of 6 projects funded jointly by the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency:

1. University of Michigan: Research into improving secondary education through the use of agent technologies.
2. Stanford University: Research on digital library interoperability.
3. University of California-Berkeley: Research on imaging and database technologies.
4. University of California-Santa Barbara: Alexandria Project to develop Geographical Information Systems.
5. Carnegie Mellon University: Research into integrated audio, video, and language recognition software.
6. University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne: Developing protocols for full-text journals.

1998: The DL2 program began. It was funded jointly by the NSF, NASA, DARPA, the National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress, the FBI, and the National Endowment for Humanities.

DL1 and DL2 received $68 million in Federal money between 1994 and 1999.

Google grew out of technologies developed at Stanford's DL1 research.

The creation of digital libraries merged the fields of Library Science and Computer science into what would eventually become the field we study today: Information Science.

Muddy Point: Dr. He did a great job of clarifying my confusion about XML in lecture last week. No Muddy Point.